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Recent Examples of gillnetter
Snooks Moore comes from a long line of commercial Cook Inlet fishers and is herself a sixth-generation gillnetter.
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Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
The price tag on working gillnetters can be as low as ten grand for an out-of-repair fiberglass Rawson or as much as $400,000 for a fancy new aluminum drift boat with full refrigeration.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
The catch there this year calls for 19,000 kings and 942,000 sockeye salmon targeted by a fleet of more than 500 drift gillnetters.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2018
In Puget Sound, gillnetter Pete Knutson competes against 70-foot purse seiners that are usually corporate-owned.
—Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
Commercial trawlers, seiners and gillnetters sometimes catch them off the southern coasts of California, north to the Bering Sea and in waters off Japan.
—Author: Kyle Clayton, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2018
Could the state reduce the number of commercial setnet salmon fishermen in Cook Inlet, possibly leaving more fish for dipnetters, commercial gillnetters and sportfishermen?
—Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2018
That averaged out to $74,000 for drift gillnetters, $54,000 for setnetters and $313,500 for seiners.
—Laine Welch, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 Oct. 2017
Think trawlers, gillnetters, purse seiners, longliners and pots.
—Port Of Seattle, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
The price tag on working gillnetters can be as low as ten grand for an out-of-repair fiberglass Rawson or as much as $400,000 for a fancy new aluminum drift boat with full refrigeration.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
The catch there this year calls for 19,000 kings and 942,000 sockeye salmon targeted by a fleet of more than 500 drift gillnetters.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2018
In Puget Sound, gillnetter Pete Knutson competes against 70-foot purse seiners that are usually corporate-owned.
—Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
Commercial trawlers, seiners and gillnetters sometimes catch them off the southern coasts of California, north to the Bering Sea and in waters off Japan.
—Author: Kyle Clayton, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2018
Could the state reduce the number of commercial setnet salmon fishermen in Cook Inlet, possibly leaving more fish for dipnetters, commercial gillnetters and sportfishermen?
—Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2018
That averaged out to $74,000 for drift gillnetters, $54,000 for setnetters and $313,500 for seiners.
—Laine Welch, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 Oct. 2017
Think trawlers, gillnetters, purse seiners, longliners and pots.
—Port Of Seattle, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gillnetter
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On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
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But rather than use this long period of protection to invest in modernization, U.S. shrimpers opted to extort payments from foreign producers in exchange for their suspension of proceedings that might have resulted in higher duties.Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, couldn't sell shrimp during the COVID-19 pandemic and filed for unemployment benefits.Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
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Of the 20 or 21 whalers who left Nantucket on the Essex, only eight survived.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
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The cast of Swept Away, the about-to-open Broadway musical that follows four whalers on an odyssey of survival and salvation, are a tight crew.Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
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The uprising began with peaceful demonstrations against employment quotas for regime loyalists, but a heavy-handed crackdown ignited a powderkeg of rage against inequality and political repression that brought tens of thousands of mothers and daughters, bankers and beggars, united onto the street.Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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French Hill Hill — the current vice chair on the panel and chair of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion — is a former banker, Senate Banking Committee staffer and former executive secretary to the President's Economic Policy Council in 1991.Juliegrace Brufke, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
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With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023
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In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile.Craig Hooper, Forbes, 8 June 2022
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Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
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Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
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The vessel has been identified as the F/V Leonardo, a scalloper homeported in New Bedford.BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
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David Frulla, a lawyer who represents the Fisheries Survival Fund, said his scalloper clients would still consider this large section of water to be closed off to them under the new plan, for safety reasons.BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2019
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
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On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it.Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
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“Gillnetter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gillnetter. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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